Re: [Audacity-devel] Reassigned spectrograms

[James C. <cr...@in...>]

On 19/08/2015 09:37, Peter Sampson wrote:
> James wrote:
> >However your proposal to only configure spectrogram is much simpler 
> and low risk to implement, so if Steve and Peter are OK with
> >
> >---
> >Waveform
> >Waveform (dB)
> >Spectrogram
> >----
> >Spectrogram Settings
> >---
> >
> >Then that is what we go for.  It is simpler and lower risk.
>
> I am ok with that (as explained in my previous email), actually more 
> than ok - I really wanted Waveform (dB) back at that top level.
>
> But do we need to set Spectrogram settings in its own boxed area - 
> can't it just live in the views box?
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Also I'm confused now about the per-track settings issue.
> I thought we always have had the TCP dropdown menu
> making per track settings - what am I missing here?
>

The spectrogram settings are per track, so we can have different window 
size on different tracks.  We can't in current Audacity. Having track 
and global preferences does have slightly strange results.  Try the 
current UI and these steps:

  * Create a track and put a spectrogram on it
  * Change that spectrogram windows size for this track using the TCP
    settings.
  * Go to preferences (Ctrl-P) and change the spectrogram colour
    preferences to gray.  No effect.

This will still happen of course with the revised scheme without 
waveform settings.

I think this probably isn't going to confuse many users, i.e. I would 
regard it as much less serious than the 'stuck in snap-to' issue we have 
had.



No need to set off the spectrogram settings from the radio-choice. That 
suggestion by me retracted.

--James.